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...Gorka Landaburu, the mere fact that a non-nationalist might hold the region's highest office represents an unprecedented recognition of Basque political diversity. "It's an important day, you could even say an historic one," says the editor of the San Sebastian-based periodical Cambio 16. "Basque society is a plural society. This election reflects that...
...knew that this might happen," said Gorka Landaburu, editor of the journal Cambio 16 and himself a victim of a previous ETA bombing. "There had been threats, and ETA often attacks during elections." Indeed, Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba last month raised the country's security alert to its highest level, saying "We believe that ETA is going to try to kill before the elections." This afternoon he told a hastily convened press conference that ETA "will never intimidate Spain's society...
...Journalist Gorka Land?buru, who was himself maimed by an ETA parcel bomb, which cost him an eye and part of one hand, welcomed the news. "I believe this is a genuine call for peace," he said. "It is a permanent ceasefire and not merely a truce. The path ahead will be complicated and difficult. But I can't see them turning back...
...which regards the shuttering of Egunkaria - like last year's banning of the political party Batasuna for alleged close ties to ETA - a necessary step in its war on terrorism. No wonder many Basques feel caught between unacceptable terrorism and unacceptable repression. "We're at a great impasse," says Gorka Landáburu, a journalist who lost an eye, a thumb and three fingertips to an ETA letterbomb in May 2001. "It has become trench warfare of reprimands and insults." Nowhere is the desperation more palpable than in Andoain, a town on the Leitzaran River south of San Sebasti...
...WINTER’S NIGHT with Cheryl Wheeler, Lucy Kaplansky, John Gorka, Cliff Eberhardt. Join four of the country’s leading singer/songwriters in a concert to warm your heart on a cold winter’s evening. Cheryl Wheeler, Lucy Kaplansky, John Gorka, Cliff Eberhardt in concert. Saturday, February 15 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617)-496-2222; $26 and $22. No student discounts available. Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall...